ROTFL!!!!!
Prefrace that I'm an IT guy, and everyone involved in the story is an IT guy...tho I guess the mark was from a very shallow end of the pool.
Back in 2000 or 2001...one of the guys in our London sent an email back to the internal IT ops list, saying that the new Bonsai Kittens in the lobby looked great and were growing fantastically. Just that, that's it.
One of the monitoring monkeys (shallow end of IT pool) asked what a Bonsai Kitten was...and of course got the explination; a kitten shoved into a bottle, and it's bone structure would grow to fit the glass, etc.
This monitoring monkey did a reply to the ENTIRE FREAKING COMPANY, saying that this was wrong, immoral, it was not something that we as a public company should be doing, it says the wrong thing about us to the stockholders and the public, etc etc etc...this mail went out to the generic all employees list.
It was hysterical. Everyone else knew it was a hoax, except for this clown apparently.
Word has it about 5 minutes after the email went out, the CIO very loudly yelled for said monitoring monkey to meet with him in his office.
I still got the mail printed out somewhere..it was too good to forget about.
Postscript: Said monitoring monkey, who had not progressed from his job at all from that time, was let go last year. Apparently, he was trying to pick up TS/TG (mostly TG) "females" while at work, using his yahoo account(s), both via email and IM. What makes this awesomly funny was that all the proxies were logged..and his job was to monitor the logging and auditing of them. Not the actual auditing of the logs, but to ensure the logs were recorded and audited, both IM and all web traffic.
He probably weighed around 350lb, was no more than 5'5" tall, and was about 2 Whoppers away from a major heart attack. Had a beard that never quite grew in right, looked like he didn't shower more than twice a week, and smelled like a very old shoe.
The whole story is kinda funny..